Notes
The school website (see References) provides this biography: 'Alfred Millington Knowles was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 23 May 1871, the second son of Robert Millington Knowles of Colston Bassett Hall, Bingham, and Ellen Marsden Haslam. He was at Charterhouse [Girdlestoneites] between 1885 and1889, where he was known to his friends as ‘Belvoir’ Knowles. He gained a commission in the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) but resigned after two years. He then joined the South Nottingham Yeomanry in 1895 and he served in the Boer War with the Imperial Yeomanry. He was killed in action at Rietfontein on 9 August 1900. He left behind a wife, Lady Laura Margaret Waldegrave (daughter of the 9th Earl Waldegrave), whom he had married on 19 July 1899.'